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2011 Fall Retreat

Agenda

Fall 2011 Seminar - Tentative Schedule for Seminar Seminar Hosts

  • 26 Aug: Miriam Barlow -Instruction on Graduate Studies
  • 2 Sept: Miriam Barlow -Instruction on Public Speaking
  • 9 Sept: Miriam Barlow Recombination and the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
  • 16 Sept: Subhadip Raychaudhuri How B Cells discriminate antigen affinity
  • 23 Sept: Dr. Chun Tang Computational studies of mechanical and electronic properties of carbon based nanomaterials
  • Monday, 26 Sept 4:30-5:30 : Zhenyuan Zhang Metal and Metal Oxide Particle Synthesis, Properties, and Application
  • 30 Sept: Alicia Blancas / Maria Avila
  • 7 Oct: James Landry, UC Davis, High Throughput Biomolecular Interaction Analysis by Scanning Microarrays with Label Free Modulated Polarization Microscopes
  • 14 Oct: Heather Thompson/Johnny Touma
  • 21 Oct: Mark Zern, UC Davis
  • 28 Oct: Jesus Luna / Debye Conte
  • 4 Nov: Benjamin Doblack /  Miguel Diaz Moreno
  • 11 Nov: Veteran's Day
  • 18 Nov: Lewis Lanier, UCSF (host Jen Manilay)
  • 25 Nov: Thanksgiving
  • 2 Dec: Harshani Peiris/Emily Reed
  • 9 Dec: Nicole I. zur Nieden, UC Riverside

 

Spring 2011 Retreat

Flyer (PDF) and Speakers (PDF)

Spring 2011 Seminar Series

Fridays 1:00- 1:50 pm, COB 267. Contact the host or the principle instructor Yanbao Ma for more information.

  • 21 January: Jessica P. Houston, New Mexico State University (host Lilian Davila)
  • 28 January: Rashid Bashir, Bliss, UIUC (host Valerie & Kara)
  • 4 Feburary: TBA, UCLA (host Jennifer Lu)
  • 11 February: Marie Csete, Reserach & Development Organovo, Inc. Csete is the Executive Vice President at Research & Development, Organovo, Inc. (host Kara)
  • 18 February: Javier Garay, Riverside (host Jay & Lilian)
  • 25 February: Oscar Dubon, Berkeley (host Lilian Davila)
  • 4 March: Dr. Michael Kohn, Rice. Dr. Kohn does research on adaptive evolution of warfarin resistance by genetic introgression in house mice. (host Michael Dawson)
  • 11 March: Amy Kiger, San Diego (host Marcos E. García-Ojeda)
  • 18 March: Natalie J. Torok, M.D. Torok is an Associate Professor at the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (host Jinah Choi)
  • 25 March: Holiday
  • 1 April: Nicole Baumgarth, Davis. Baumgarth does research on B cell response regulation during influenza infection. (host David Ojcius)
  • 8 April: Andrea Joyce (host Michael Dawson)
  • 15 April: TBA, Stanford (host Jennifer Lu)
  • 22 April: Michael Ibba, OSU (host David Ardell)
  • 29 April: TBA (host Tao Ye)
  • 6 May: David Traver. Traver researches the development of the vertebrate hematopoietic system. (host Marcos E. García-Ojeda)

 

Fall 2010 Disssertation Defenses

For more information, contact Grad Student Programs Coordinator Carrie King.

Fall 2010 Retreat

Agenda (PDF)

Fall 2010 Seminar Series

Fridays 1:00-2:20 pm, COB 267. Contact the host or the principle instructor Mike Cleary for more information.

  • 20 Aug (2:30 pm): Michel Puceat, INSERM. Dr. Michel Puceat is a well known stem cell biologist who is currently the Director of Research at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), and also the principal Investigator of the INSERM research team Embryonic stem cells and cardiogenesis at Evry, France. (host Nestor Oviedo)
  • 31 Aug (Tuesday): Laura Landweber, Princeton (host David Ardell)
  • 3 Sept: TBA
  • 10 Sept: Thien Nguyen, Department of Neurology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (host Wei-Chun Chin)
  • 17 Sept: Karen osborn, UC San Diego, "A glimpse into the pelagic abyss: discovery, observation and evolution of midwater animals" (host Michael Dawson)
  • 24 Setp: Wentai Liu, UC Santa Cruz (host Steve Kang)
  • 1 Oct:
  • 8 Oct: Camilla Forsbert, UC Santa Cruz (host Mike Cleary)
  • 15 Oct: Dmytro Kornyeyev, UC Merced Escobar Lab, "Too much of a good thing: How photosynthetic organisms deal with excessive light"
  • 22 Oct: Shirley Luckhart, UC Davis, "Systems biology of regulatory signaling in malaria host-parasite interactions" (host David Ojcius)
  • 29 Oct: Tang, Qizhi, UC San Francisco (host Jen Manilay)
  • 5 Nov: Nicole Zur Nieden, UC Riverside (host Jen Manilay)
  • 12 Nov: Min Zhao, UC Davis (host Nestor Oviedo)
  • 19 Nov: TBA (host Jennifer Lu)
  • 26 Nov: No Meeting
  • 3 Dec: David Deamer, UC Santa Cruz (host Heinz Falenski)

Summer 2010 Disssertation Defenses

For more information, check the Events Calendar at the School of Natural Sciences. Contact Grad Student Programs Coordinator Carrie King for more information.

  • 10 June: David Gravano (Chair Jen Manilay)
  • TBA: Najwane Said (Chair David Ojcius)

Spring 2010 Disseration Defenses

Contact Grad Student Programs Coordinator Carrie King for more information.

  • 23 Feb, 10:00 am, SE 298: Ms. Ronna Mallios: An iterative strategy combining biophysical criteria and duration hidden Markov models for structural predictions of Chlamydia trachomatis sigma-66 promoters (Chair David Ojcius)
  • 21 April, 10:00 am, KL 396: Mr. Ali Abdul Sater: TBA (Chair David Ojcius)
  • 21 April, 12:00 pm, SE 300: Mr. Shinichi Sunagawa: Microbial Diversity and Transcriptome Profiling in Coral Holobiont (Chair Monica Medina)
  • 26 April, 1:00 PM, SE 300: Mr. Michael DeSalvo: cDNA microarray-based studies of thermal stress-induced bleaching in the Caribbean corals Montastraea faveolata and Acropora palmata (Chair Monica Medina)
  • TBA: Christopher Mahafeey (Chair Henry Forman)
  • TBA: Matthew Pettengill (Chair David Ojcius) 

Spring 2010 Retreat

Agenda (PDF)

Spring 2010 Seminar Series

Fridays 1:00-1:50 pm, COB 267. Contact the host or the principle instructor Michael Dawson for more information.

  • 5 Feb: Dr. Robert D. Reed, UC Irvine: Evolution and development of butterfly wing pattern mimicry (host M. Dawson) (reference)
  • 12 Feb: Mr. Eric Alan Josephs, UCM Graduate Student: Engineering dynamic surfaces of single-molecule DNA structures (host Tao Ye)
  • 19 Feb: No speaker
  • 26 Feb: Dr. Patricia E Thomé, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: TBA - main focus is on the halotolerant marine yeast Debaryomyces hansenii (host Carolin Frank)
  • 5 Mar: Dr. Manel Camps, UC Santa Cruz: Fingerprints and Footprints: Modulation of Biological Activities by Point Mutations (host Marcos Garcia-Ojeda) (reference1) (reference2)
  • 12 Mar: Dr. Janos Peti-Peterdi, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, and Medicine; University of Southern California: Multiphoton imaging of renal regulatory processes (host Rudy Ortiz) (reference)
  • 19 Mar: Dr. Jennifer Laurence, University of Kansas: TBA (host Patti LiWang)
  • 26 Mar: Spring recess/Cesar Chavez holiday
  • 2 Apr: Dr. Kim E. Barrett, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego: TBA (host Rudy Ortiz) (reference1) (reference2)
  • 9 Apr: Ms. Najwane Said, UCM Graduate Student: Aspergillus fumigatus induces inflammasome activation (host David Ojcius) (reference)
  • 16 Apr: Dr. Tiffany Vora, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University: Protein Occupancy Landscape of a Bacterial Genome (host Ajay Gopinathan)
  • 23 Apr: Dr. Jennifer B.H. Martiny, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine: The functional significance of microbial biogeography (in salt marshes) (host Michael Dawson) (reference)
  • 30 Apr: Dr. Bevin Lin, Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology & Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Institution: UC Davis: Bioengineering in the development of medical diagnostic systems using ultraviolet autofluorescence (host Lilian Davila) (more info)
  • 7 May: QSB/BEST 291 students 

Fall 2009 Seminar Series

Fridays 1:00-1:50 pm, COB 267. Contact the host or the series coordinator Prof. Meng-Lin Tsao for more information.

  • 4 Sept: Ariel Escobar, UCM: On the relationship between Ca2+ dynamic and cellular excitability: possible origin of cardiac arrhythmia (host M. Tsao) - RESCHEDULED to 24 Sept, 12-1 pm, SE 300
  • 11 Sept: Jerry Tsai, U of Pacific: The Ins & Outs of Protein Structure Prediction (host A. LiWang)
  • 18 Sept: Mike Levine, UCB: Transcriptional precision in the Drosophila embryo and heart formation in the Ciona tadpole (host M. Medina)
  • 25 Sept: Jin-Shan Hu, Western U: Molecular Mechanism of RecQ Helicase Function in Human Cancers and Premature Aging Diseases (host A. LiWang)
  • 2 Oct: Michael Stadermann, LLNL: TBA (host J. Lu)
  • 9 Oct: Donald Bethune, IBM: TBA (host J. Lu)
  • 16 Oct: Nestor Oviedo, UCM: Modulating stem cell behavior in cancer and tissue regeneration (host M. Tsao)
  • 23 Oct: Shini Sunagawa, UCM grad student: TBA (host M. Medina)
  • 30 Oct: Donald Bers, UCD: TBA (host A. Escobar)
  • 6 Nov: Julio Vergara, UCLA: TBA (host A. Escobar)
  • 13 Nov: Jianhua Ren, U of Pacific: TBA (host A. LiWang)
  • 20 Nov: Michael Beman, UCM: TBA (host M. Tsao)
  • 27 Nov: Thanksgiving (no seminar)
  • 4 Dec: Discussion: Statement of Learning (no seminar)

Statement of Learning is due 5 pm on 30 Nov.
Peer-evaluation is due 5 pm on Dec 3.

Fall 2009 Retreat

Flyer (PDF)

Spring 2009 Retreat

Agenda (PDF)

Spring 2009 Seminar Series

See BEST grad group website